I’ve been experimenting with colour infrared video and photography for some time, photography is easier due to the IR blocking filter on my stills camera being quite weak, plus manipulating RAW images in Photoshop and Gimp using colour channel swapping is very effective. However video is another matter entirely, the IR blocking filter on my…
Category: Nature
Dragonfly wings
In my endeavour to create and produce more I’ve tried to paint and draw some dragonfly wings I guess the colours aren’t very realistic but they are fun :) I used inktense pencils by derwent for the rich translucent hues. My neighbour has a wildlife pond so I’m frequently visited by dragonflies, damselflies and the…
Graphic Plants..
After seeing the x-ray plant photos of Steven Meyers I was inspired to create a video edit that captured the same look and feel. I filmed plants in my garden using a macro lens then processed the clips with various computer generated effects to create the vivid graphic look of the video below. The clips were then…
The Spindleberry
I couldn’t resist posting this photo of the gorgeous pink and orange berries found on a Spindle Tree. They were discovered during a walk in Kent, growing on chalky soil in a hedgerow. Apparently the wood from the Spindle Tree is very hard, fine grained, and was used for making into wool spinning spindles and…
Humble Umbels…
I really love the form of the plants in the Umbelliferae family, I’m entranced by the upward sweeping negative curvature of the flowers, which resembles the inverted circles found in hyperbolic geometry. They are found in the British Isles as the native plants Wild Carrot (also known as Queen Anne’s Lace), Cow Parsley, Hogweed and many…
Dancing Circles
Some time ago I was shown this video of ‘circles dancing in a rhomb’ by Gelada http://maxwelldemon.com/edmund-harriss/ http://vimeo.com/23772888 At the time it inspired me to create some interesting patterns with crochet, based around the negative space within the structures and the rhythmic dance of the circles within the shape. But it was the cellular structure…
Hortus
I’ve finally finished my live cinema show ‘Hortus’ you can read a little about it below :) Hortus explores the relationship between natural and urban environments, it takes the viewer on a journey of discovery through the presence, form and processes of vegetal nature found throughout cities but often overlooked and ignored. Urban Nature Part…
New microscope with camera :)
I unexpectedly got a Bresser Biolux NV microscope with USB camera for xmas, it’s a good hobbyist microscope with 4x, 10x and 40x objectives, the kit came with some prepared specimens and even some shrimp eggs and an incubator for growing them, as well as spare slides and cover slips Here are some captures from…
Earth, the final frontier
I’ve been doing lots of online After Effects tutorials recently as I’d like to add cgi effects to some of the footage I shot over the summer with an aim to represent natural phenomena such at photosynthesis and gravitation. Things are going well and I’m getting my head around the use of fractal noise, particles and…
Phloem 